re: Longest most expensive MRS degree ever?

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Being a stay at home mom is wonderful but if thats what you want why do you do the rest?

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What does the husband do?

The answer to that question will determine whether or not she is really smart or really stupid.

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She’ll stay home for six years and pop out three kids. Once the youngest starts preschool, she’ll go back to work and hire a nanny.

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Yea, just a casual decade long hiatus from neurosurgery before popping right back into it. Exactly how that works

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She’ll bring in $200k+/year

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neurosurgery.

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Not to mention taking a spot from somebody who would practice and care for patients for 30 years.

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They were smart enough to get into med school despite being a girl which means they had options to get into any professional school they wanted. Whether a doc or another profession, they would have taken someone’s spot just by being in the candidate pool.

Of the female docs I know, only one quit completely (coincidentally married to a neurosurgeon) while a few have switched to a less demanding/non-surgical field. Of the female docs that do quit, I’d guess that they are married to a doc.

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What does the husband do?

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GI doc.

Could make anywhere from 300k to million depending on his group setup and how hard he works.

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There are more women than men enrolled into medical school fwiw.

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Can't wait for doctor shortages.

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Maybe she made enough in that one year to retire? Doctors get paid a lot you know.

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Look at it this way. If there is a divorce, she probably isn't getting alimony or child support

In a Louisiana, I think the most a doctor can get sued for is $100,000.

It can’t be more than that.

LINK

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The number of women age 20 and older not in the labor pool, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has soared from 40 million in 2000 to nearly 49 million today; another 315,000 called it quits last month. The participation rate of women in the workplace has dropped from a high of 60.7 percent in 1999 to 58.8 percent today. By contrast, some 72.5 percent of men are either working or looking for a job.

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The second (and more problematic) group consists of highly educated women who drop out (or “opt-out”) when they have children, even though they have the skills and income necessary to hire childcare. This latter bunch has economists and feminists alarmed for different reasons.

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The numbers tell the story. Overall, Hersch reports that 60 percent of women who graduated from our top schools are working full time, compared to 68 percent who made it through less prestigious institutions. Married women without children from top schools are 20 percentage points more likely to work full time than those with children; the difference for graduates of lesser schools is 13.5 points. Perhaps most astonishing is that only 35 percent of women who have earned MBAs after getting a bachelor’s degree from a top school are working full time, compared to 66 percent from second-tier schools.

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A recent study by Joni Hersch, professor at Vanderbilt Law School, makes that case. She looks at female graduates of our top universities – those presumably who have the best shot at shattering the glass ceiling – and finds that once they have children, they are more likely to quit their jobs than are women who graduated from less selective schools.

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